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D. P. HULBERT.

BMBOSSI-NG PHOTOGRAPHS.

No. 589,260. Patented Aug. '31, 1897.

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UNITED STAT-Es PATENT i muon,

DURAN F. IIULBERT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO T HE HULBERT BASRELIEF COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

EIVI-BOSSING PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,260, dated August31, 1897.

Application filed April Z6, 1897. Serial No. 634,03 (No model.) l

novel methods or processes hereinafter` illustrated, described, andclaimed, and ofthe novel construction,co1nbination,and arrangement ofparts hereinafter shown, described, v

and claimed.

The figure is a vertical sectional View through an ordinaryletter-press, together with the male and female embossing forms or dies,the frame or chase, the male and fezo male patterns, and thephotographic print, all

arrangedgas required to carry out the principles of my invention.

Referring by numerals to the drawing, l is the bed of the letter-press;2, the female embossing form or die; 3, the frame or chase; 4, thefemale pattern; 5, the photographic print; 6, the male pattern; 7, themale embossing form or die; 8, the platen of the press, and 9 the screwfor operating the platen.

3o In carrying out the principles of my invention I take amalleable-metal plate-such as asheet of lead, or an alloy of lead andtin, or a sheet of any similar malleable material, cut to the desiredsize and shape-and I paste a 5 5 photographic print upon saidmalleable-metalv plate, or I sensitize said malleable-metal plate andphotograph a picture thereon, or I print a picture on said malleableplate from a printing-form, or I draw or paint a picture or de- 4o signupon said malleable-metal plate. Then I clamp the edges of saidmalleable-metal plate in the open frame 3, as required, to hold saidedges firmly. Then I take embossing-tools and press upwardly from belowor downwardly from above, as required, to emboss the picture as desired,and thus I produce the female pattern 4. I then ll the space within theframe and above the pattern with plaster-of-paris or othersuitableplastic 5o material, which will hardenwhen cold or dry, and thus I makethe female embossing form or die 2. After the female die or form hasbecome sufficiently hardened, I turn the frame bottom upward and open itup and place a second malleable-metal plate upon the pattern 4 anddepress portions of said second plate into the indentations of thepattern 4, thus forming the male pattern G, which exactly matches thefemale pattern 4. I then fill the space above the pattern 6 and within6o the frame with plaster-of-paris or other suitable plastic materialwhich will harden when cold or dry, and thus I make the male em.-bossing form or die 7. The patterns 4 and 6 may or may notI be removed.I prefer not to remove them, as theyform a substantial face for theforms 0r dies, making the dies resemble electrotype-plates. I then openthe frame on its hinges, place a copy of the picture or fdesign'which Iused in making the pattern 4 7o in position above the form 2, then closethe forms, then place the frame upon the bed of the press and depressthe platen, thus pressing the forms tightly together and embossing` thecopy. After the copies have been embossed the depressions upon the backsof the copies maybe filled with anysuitable plastic material which willharden when cold or dry, or said copies may be stiffened by applying 8ocoats of shellac, or in any suitable way, as desired, or the copies maybe made or pasted upon sheets of stiff paper or cardboard, or upon amalleable-metal mount before being embossed, or they may be pasted upona suitable mount after having been embossed.

The frame 3 may be removed from the forms 2 and 7, and said forms may belocked in chases and placed upon an embossing-press and operated in theusual way, said forms be- 9o ing in effect embossing-dies, whichembossing-dies may be used in the ordinary way of embossing.

I claim-- I I. The improvement in the art of embossing, which consistsof taking a malleablemetal plate having a pic-ture" or design upon oneof its sides, embossing said picture or design with embossing-tools andthus producing a pattern, placing plastic material against one side ofsaid pattern and allowing said material to harden thus producing a formor IOO die, placing a second malleable-metal plate against the irstplate and pressing said plate firmlyinto the indentations of the firstplate thus producing a second pattern, placing plastic material againstone side of said second pattern and allowing said material to hardenthus. producing a second form or die, placing the copy to be embossedbetween said forms or dies and pressing said forms firmly together,substantially as specified.

2. In an apparatus or device for embossing photographs and the like, anembossing die o1' form consisting of a malleable-metal plate having apicture or design upon one of its sides, said plate being embossed toform a pattern, said pattern being outlined or indicated by said pictureor design and said plate being backed by a mass of hardened plasticmaterial, and an embossing die or form consisting of a malleablemetalplate adapted to be pressed rrnly against the first-mentionedmalleable-metal plate and backed by a mass of hardened plastic material,substantially as specilied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DURAN F. I-IULBERT. litnessesz S. G. WELLS, EDWARD E. LONGAN.

